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Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya: "A Real Investigation Will only Be Possible if the Regime Changes," Her Son Says.

Twenty years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered, shot dead in the stairwell of her building in Moscow, on Vladimir Putin's birthday. Novaya Gazeta's investigative journalist, who denounced corruption and war crimes committed during the Second Chechnya War, was a virulent critic of the Russian president. If the shooter and organizer were convicted, the sponsors were never identified. Twenty years later, her son, Ilia Politkovski, returned to he…

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Lean Left

This tireless opponent, journalist and investigator spent her life analyzing and denouncing the crimes of the Poutinian regime. Two decades after her murder, her work did not take a wrinkle.

·Paris, France
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Center

Anna Politkovskaya wrote about, among other things, human rights violations in Russia and criticized Vladimir Putin.

·Helsinki, Finland
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Lean Left

The independent Russian journalist was killed 20 years ago: since then Putin's regime has wiped her out of public memory

·Italy
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Lean Left

Look at the date: September 19, 2006, Zavtra Gazeta, number 38. Andrej Fursov's essay comes out on the great writer and philosopher Aleksandr Zinov'ev (the author of "Cime abyssali" in Italy published by Adelphi). The title is significant: "The great opposite." It ironizes on the silovikis, the men who control the Putinian Russia: "Between the Soviet nomenklatura and [...] The article Anna Politkovskaja, the first victim of the Putin method. Twe…

·Rome, Italy
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Center

For opponents of the Kremlin, his murder has set a macabre milestone in the dive into Russia's authoritarianism.

·Montreal, Canada
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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Monday, October 5, 2026.
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